WORST Fighter You Ever Thought HIGHLY Of???...

For REED, it's Gotta Be Allan Green...His Scheduled Appearance on FNF Tonight INSPIRED this Thread...

Granted, REED NEVER Saw GREATNESS Out of the Cat, but REED Thought he'd @ Least Win 1 World Title @ Some Point...REED Actually PREDICTED "Green KO Ward"...REED Also Loooooooooooooong Thought a Fight w/Mikkel Kessler would Be FAVORABLE for Green...

So Much for THAT:doh:...

As if that WASN'T Bad Enough, Now Green's Come In OVERWEIGHT for his FNF Main Event by 6 Pounds...Then, After Negotiating a way to MAINTAIN the Fight, Wound Up Getting "Food Poisoning" & Taken to the Hospital...

Anyways, Are there Any Fighters who've Made as LITTLE Out of the HIGH Hopes you Had for Them, as Allan Green has for REED???...




REED:hammert:

 

A-Force Harrison bich hart

 

I don't know if he was the "worst", but I once had high hopes for Oleg Maskaev for some reason.

 

Ben Tackie... I thought highly of his heavy right hand and his tungsten chin and I thought he'd win a title... I wrote off his split decision loss to John John Molina as a learning experience for a professionally young boxer against a crafty, seasoned older guy... When he got the shot at Tszyu, I even thought he'd knock him out, maybe behind on the cards, because Tszyu was susceptible to the right hand and well, lightning in a bottle, etc... Tszyu put on the best pure boxing performance of his career and completely befuddled him with timely, simple lateral movement, a pecking jab and tight defense... Tackie's vaunted right hand was never a factor and the result was a shutout... That was it for Tackie... After that he became a solid, respectable gatekeeper and nothing more

 

Guy was too badly managed to realize his potential. Badly managed and a bit limited. Won a world title all the same, albeit he had to wait for everyone else to go play basketbal or something.

 

I thought Dominick Guinn looked real nice against Grant and Dokiwari. He ended up making a living as a professional loser.

Can't believe it's been 10 years since those fights.

 

fixed

 

Knocked out Hasim Rahman before and after the fact, the fact being Hasim Rahman knocking Lewis out colder than the cold meat section at a deli counter with really really good fridges and a strict manager who is a stickler about keeping shit cold.

 

Anyways......for me............it's probably Wlad. I think highly of so few fighters that he is probably the worst of them.

 

Maskaev won a title? Thank God I've repressed that memory

 

Usually about once a year I go off the deep end about some prospect I've seen 2 rounds total of on the basis of seeing them actually trying to move their head out the way of a punch(!). It would be a long and embarrassing list. But with Kid Chocolate it's all different! He's for real, he's gonna shake up the world!

 

Come on. Maskaev was being fed to guys like McCall when he was a raw novice. He did well.

 

I think I liked him because of that. He was thrown in with the wolves early and worked his way up from being an opponent, without being babied.

He had a nice pleasing aesthetic style for a Heavyweight, but his chin wasn't all that. He got tagged by Kirk Johnson of all people, and it was the beginning of the end right there. I thought he was going to decapitate Kirk.

 

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I think I can safely say it's DeGale for HootHoot.

For me, honestly not sure, there seems to be a couple of fighters I overrated somewhat recently, but can't remember who.

Edit - for me it has to be Tua. I thought he was a little tank who would destroy everyone eventually.

 

Chunky is brilliant

 

I thought Carlos Quintana looked very promising.

 

Pele Reid for me, I thought he was gonna be a major force.

 

Which he was.

 

Indeed

 

Quite.

 

innit

 

guvna

 

Juanma Lopez for sure. Came on the scene with his KO of De Leon and after that he hit a glass ceiling and never progressed. The fact that he was a lazy party boy didn't help either.

 

Degale is less shit than you think. And more shit than Slice thinks.

 

I was always really disappointed at the trio of Page/Dokes/Cooney in the 80's. Ali, Frazier, Foreman & Norton were all retired (and 3 of the 4 made an embarrassing comeback in this time). Holmes was on top of the division, but didn't have any serious challengers early on. In the early 80's they were expected to be the group of up and comers who might unseat Holmes as heavy or succeed him after he retired and then have a fun round-robin of fights.

All 3 underachieved, Dokes and Page looked good in some fights (and so-so in others) and managed to win Alphabet titles, but surrendered them in lackluster efforts shortly thereafter and began the slide toward "name opponent" . Cooney had the mega-fight with Holmes and turned in brave effort that answered some of the questions surrounding him before the fight, but then faded away into a haze of depression, alcohol and drugs and a couple of embarrassing "comebacks". And they never fought each other, not even one time.

I don't know they were the "worst", but I was really disappointed in the way their careers turned out. As a fan who grew up with Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Norton going at it over and over, it was frustrating to watch these fighters not live up to their potential.

The decade produced other fighters who made the division interesting, such as Witherspoon, Snipes, Coetzee, Thomas, Tucker, Bruno, and, of course, Tyson. But I expected much more from Page/Dokes/Cooney.

 

Pedro Pena and Panchito Bojado.

 

I never understood the hype over Pendejo Mojado. I remember at the time there was some debate between who was more promising between him and Cotto. It was one of the rare times i picked a Puerto Rican over a Mexican.

Jesse James Leija answered all the questions about that lazy fraud.

 

Ya. The old Seconds Out was riddled with Pendejo Mojado fans.That "Maddog" was one of them. It was a proper wankfest.

 

^^^ this.....I thought Guinn was the FUTURE of the heavyweight division....:Thumbs: